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Vote against clean power target for 2030 is major setback for UK economy
At PMQs, David Cameron outlined that yesterday’s House of Commons vote against a cross-party amendment to set a clean power target for 2030 was the right outcome. While the issue might seem a long way from the electorate’s concerns, the result will have a serious impact on the working lives of many people in the country.
Quote of the day: Homosexuals are ‘very good at antiques’
Conservative peer Baroness Knight said that despite her opposition to gay marriage, she recognised that homosexuals had many talents.
The greed of the executives and their cosiness to government enables high pay culture
So it is not the acquiescence of the general population that enables executive pay and levels of inequality to keep increasing. It is the greed of the executives themselves, and their cosiness with a government too weak to take them on.
Gay parents good for children according to new study
Children brought up by gay couples are healthier and have better relationships with their families, according to a new Australian-based study.
Wales standing up to UK austerity, argues First Minister
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has told AMs that Wales is making progress in “the most difficult economic circumstances” and that the Welsh government is “standing up” to UK government austerity and welfare policies.
Speaker Bercow is right: migrants are harder workers
John Bercow is getting a lot of flack right now from the right-wing press for comments made in Romania in which he seemed to imply that EU migrants were better workers than their British counterparts.
True ‘austerity’ would require those at the top to shoulder a much greater burden
Rather than making society’s most vulnerable members carry the can, true ‘austerity’ would require those at the top to bear the much greater burden, in order to bring down increasingly obscene levels of unequal wealth.
Trade unionists around the world should lend their voices to the resistance of the Turkish people
At noon today the 240,000 member strong Turkish Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) began a two day strike in response to “state terror implemented against mass protests across the country” in what may prove to be a significant development for the brave and burgeoning protest movement triggered by #occupygezi.
Do men and straight people need support societies too?
Recently there has been something of a backlash against equal rights movements – the counter demand for pride/rights/support from majority or dominant groups. This has taken the form of everything from university-based “masculinity groups” to those advancing the concept of “straight pride”.
Inequality stat of the day
Inequality stat of the day.